Interviewing Elites, Experts and the Powerful in Criminology

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Interviewing Elites, Experts and the Powerful in Criminology is written by Olga Petintseva and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3030330001 (ISBN 10) and 9783030330002 (ISBN 13).

This book offers practical advice on designing, conducting and analyzing interviews with ‘elite’ and ‘expert’ persons (or ‘socially prominent actors’), with a focus on criminology and criminal justice. It offers dilemmas and examples of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ practices in order to encourage readers to critically asses their own work. It also addresses methodological issues which include: access, power imbalances, getting past ‘corporate answers’, considerations of whether or not it is at times acceptable to ask leading questions and whether to enter a discussion with a respondent at all. This book will be valuable to students and scholars conducting qualitative research.